Who speaks for FARC-EP? Woman used as "human bomb" news item (29 July, 2009 )

link to news item-

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/5207-farc-use-homeless-woman-as...


"Colombia Reports" (web-site), article by Katherina Wecker, Wed. , 29 July, 2009

http://www.colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/5207-farc-use-homeless-woma...


Summary of (alleged) Facts:

FARC guerrillas ( from FARC's Mariscal Sucre front ) gave a homeless woman a bomb to attack a police station in the south of Colombia. The woman was sent to deliver a package ( the bomb) to the police station. FARC guerrilla(s) activated the bomb when she arrived. The woman died immediately, 14 other people were injured.


Look at the article's title, which appears as a conclusive statement for the entire world to read:


News item heading reads:


'FARC use homeless woman as human bomb:authorities'

This heading in bold font is nothing but an assertion appearing as the truth. Never accept anything as the truth. You need all the evidence in front of you, before you can even consider whether it's the truth or not.



Q: Firstly, what the picture all about? (video still?)

A police vehicle, nothing more? Who took it and when? How is it relevant to the incident? Is the picture the location where the bombing took place? Or, is it assumed you will think it is? Picture has Canal Caracol- a Colombian TV station on it, so what? The picture really indicates nothing.




Who provided the information for the news item?

News item uses: authorities and 'According to police sources...' (at para. 3)

Would you trust Colombian authorities as a reliable impartial, and independent source of information? Remember, the Colombian government, with US assistance, have been trying to annihilate the FARC for decades, right?

police sources are never identified in news item (Protection of witness identities issues etc).


Who was the bomber?

What was her(?) background, age, was she a guerrilla, a suicide bomber, or not, an innocent victim? She was homeless? Was the bomb planted on the woman OR did she accept it voluntarily knowing it was a bomb? There is a significant difference. News item states '... the bomb was given to the woman by guerrillas...'. Inference is? She knew what it was and accepted it? News item states bomb was given to the woman by guerrillas from FARC, really?. Who witnessed '... guerrillas of, specifically, the FARC's Mariscal Sucre front... ' do this? And, who saw these guerrillas, or, one of them, activate the bomb- when the woman arrived at the target? How was the bomb activated? Who saw that? Any proof?

How do they know this woman died immediately? Who witnessed her death? Have you seen her death certificate? Or you just assume she's dead?



Who witnessed the incident?

What did they see? What were the conditions like at the time, dark? What did they hear? Who heard what? What exactly was said, and by whom? With what degree of specificity? For how many seconds, minutes, or hours, did they witness the incident? Only a fleeting glimpse? How reliable are these police sources? How can their credibility, veracity, ever be tested, in a court? Are any of them bias against organizations such as FARC? What are their backgrounds, their political affiliations, etc? Do you know?

14 others were injured (not killed) authorities say. You assume this is correct? Was it 14? What injuries exactly, how serious? Seen any medical reports? Or you just assume news item is accurate?


drug-trafficking gangs?


News item asserts that FARC and ELN are both drug-trafficking gangs. But how is this relevant to bombing a police station? What's the link here, the connection is? It's never explained in the news item itself. Niether does the news item provide a shred of evidence to support the claim they are drug-trafficking gangs



only one side of the story presented

Crucially, why is there no reply from FARC in relation to the incident? News item presents only one side of the story. Highly suspect. Bad journalism.

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[kindadevil]

It is pathetic how FARC makes this crappy video to show how ¨ sensationalist media¨ is against them. haha I didn´t even know about that news item, but who cares! you should make a video justifying every kidnapping, every dead human, all the damage against the nation and the people across 50 years of unsuccessful war, even justifying stupid articles you will NEVER make people think FARC is the army of the people because it´s ridiculous, FARC is just a Cancer of the society, nothing else.

[CommunistNewZealand]

and you are the cancer of you tube you red-neck prick

[shatterknee]

I don't know if the FARC are good or bad, but I know that the Colombian government is bad, and the USA is bad in the third world. I had to serve as infantry in Iraq to see it first hand- only then could I believe what is written in those "leftist" books by Blum and others. People don't need to automatically approve of the FARC- they need to keep an open mind. Large movements do not rebel against a powerful government simply out of spite. Caracas and the US have a almost genocidal record there.

[Guevaristas]

its not ignorance, the vid exposes the hypocrisy of right-wing senationalist media

[RadicalHiphop1]

Stop watching right-wing news stations

[nic19913]

es completanemnte estupido decir q colombia tendria mas drogas sin las farc, creo q eres muy ignorante respecto al tema

[Guevaristas]

you have to prove it with evidence

[nic19913]

i dont know if this shit of women bombs is truth but i knoe that the farc still children from farmers and the children have to fight, they still the lands of the farmers for drugs, if you have a baby and you are in the farc you are death but if you are a big boss of the farc you can fuck with all the women in the world they put a bomb in a club and children died they are killers and they destry the life of a lot of people with drugs

[PCEparty]

Colombia es un país invadido por los EEUU-OTAN. Los USA ponen las armas y la clase trabajadora colombiana los muertos.Los USA se llevan las riquezas de Colombia comprando con una parte a sus sirvientes los oligarcas. De lo poco que queda en Colombia el gobierno oligarca le da otra parte a USA como pago por sus armas. ¡Negocio redondo! . La oligarquía convierte las tierras que le quitan a la resistencia (FARC.EP) en explotaciones cocaleras. ¡A menos guerrilla, más droga!.